The World Until Yesterday

2012 essay by Jared Diamond
VisualArtwork literary_work Q7776075
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

The World Until Yesterday

Summary

The World Until Yesterday is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The World Until Yesterday authored Jared Diamond[3].
  • The World Until Yesterday's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The World Until Yesterday's publisher is recorded as Viking Press[5].
  • The World Until Yesterday's genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • The World Until Yesterday's follows is recorded as Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed[7].
  • The World Until Yesterday's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The World Until Yesterday's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • The World Until Yesterday's publication date is recorded as +2012-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0pkph7l[11].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Open Library ID is recorded as OL16637581W[12].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Internet Archive ID is recorded as worlduntilyester00diam_0[13].
  • The World Until Yesterday's has edition or translation is recorded as Q138027832[14].
  • The World Until Yesterday's main subject is recorded as pre-industrial society[15].
  • The World Until Yesterday's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The World Until Yesterday'}[16].
  • The World Until Yesterday's BBC Things ID is recorded as c1427dd3-86a0-449f-b25a-1cb1fa0e030b[17].
  • The World Until Yesterday's subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'}[18].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Quora topic ID is recorded as The-World-Until-Yesterday[19].
  • The World Until Yesterday's OCLC work ID is recorded as 1108680693[20].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 21471299[21].
  • The World Until Yesterday's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 298075[22].

Body

Works and Contributions

The World Until Yesterday authored Jared Diamond[3].

Why It Matters

The World Until Yesterday ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). The World Until Yesterday. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-world-until-yesterday
MLA “The World Until Yesterday.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-world-until-yesterday.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-world-until-yesterday_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The World Until Yesterday}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-world-until-yesterday}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): The World Until Yesterday — https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-world-until-yesterday (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-world-until-yesterday · Last refreshed: