The Historical Ecology of Malaria in EthiopiaMalaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africas most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malarias adaptation and persistence in a single region,