Astonishingly, British imperialism, seen for decades by western scholars and anticolonial leaders alike as a racist, illegitimate and often predatory despotism, came to be repackaged in our own time as a benediction that, in Ferguson's words, "undeniably pioneered free trade, free capital movements and, with the abolition of slavery, free labour".
Public health officials suspect that infected meat was repackaged and resold as having come from countries presumed free of mad cow disease.
Counterfeit antimalarials can come in the form of chalk pills, repackaged expired products, or different drugs entirely.
Despite Mr. Bush's claim that he was offering a way for all Americans to "come together" on Iraq, he offered the same divisive policies — repackaged this time with the Orwellian slogan "return on success".
But we have come a long way from such self-consciously revolutionary times — as Coates correctly deduced, what has always been the writer's chic, repackaged and updated, is sufficiently radical now.
Opposed to what they see as a repackaged version of the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, the Tories have promised a referendum on the treaty if it is not in force by the time they come to power.
So far they have come in three main varieties: lively portraits of the world avant le déluge by Florian Illies and Charles Emerson; new interpretations of how the disaster came about by Margaret MacMillan and Christopher Clark; and military narratives repackaged for a younger generation of readers.
But the smarter course for Republicans would be to choose Mr. McCain, who would not have to be repackaged and repositioned when it comes to outreach and reform.
Truth be told, a lot of books coming down the pike are basic concepts repackaged, and at this point I find myself just skimming through some books looking to see if there is a pearl or two from which I can glean some wisdom.
They came from the emotional ranks of alphas and betas, but just repackaged on the power of their intellectual and emotional intelligence.
