Reddit reviews A New History of Shinto
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I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/History-Shinto-Blackwell-Histories-Religion/dp/1405155167
However, it doesn't discuss the Imperial rites, which it sounds like you might be interested in. I don't know of a good book for that in English yet.
The books by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen
A New History of Shinto
and
Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami
They're great works on the history of Shinto, from an academic perspective. They're revisionist works in the sense that they challenge the old ideas about what Shinto is and how it came to be, that might sound like they're fringe works, but it's rather that the study of Japanese religion is a very modern topic where new research is conducted right now. These books are a part of modern Shinto studies that are based in modern research.